What an odd "printer" bug

On a side note, the most classic “printer” bug I ever have heard is this one:when a player eats a ghost in a PacMan type clone game for the TRS-80 Color Computer, his printer would print a line of garbage:

1. “The Rainbow” was a magazine for the TRS-80 Color Computer. I had one of those (still do, actually) and it was a lot of fun.

2. What an odd bug – eating a ghost in a Pac Man clone caused the printer to print? Weird. Probably understandable, though – I’m sure some data got written to the memory location that controlled the printer.

3. This was from 1983. Printer bugs have been around quite a while.

4. Some folks are trying to get all these old magazines scanned and OCRed correctly. I’ve been helping on and off with this project, so that explains where I saw this.

Anyway, I don’t remember copying this, or why, but figured I would share. It’s obviously testing related, at least.